That cage looks pretty sketchy to me. More like an art project than a safety device.
Photography courtesy Mecum
What goes like a C6 Z06 but loosely resembles a C2 Corvette? This Corvette kart built by Stripped Down Street Rods.
The donor car, a 2009 Z06, is purported to have had fewer than 33,000 miles when the build was started and today features a short-throw shifter as well as a refreshed LS7 V8 and Z06 six-speed manual transmission.
The custom headlights and taillights are intended to resemble those on the C2 Corvette, while the interior is fitted with vinyl bucket seats–with four-point harnesses–plus marine-grade carpet and headliner, per the seller.
Find this 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Roadster for auction from Mecum.
That cage looks pretty sketchy to me. More like an art project than a safety device.
Colin, you are wrong. I do not need that.
What does it weigh?
notoa1 said:What does it weigh?
3116# https://youtu.be/3u29ZBvqeM0?list=PLso-p02kh918c999lloUaARysfYK-92hb&t=220
In reply to notoa1 :
Okay, I hear you on that one, but it is certainly...unique, right? 
DrMikeCSI said:That cage looks pretty sketchy to me. More like an art project than a safety device.
Anything it may lack in design for the tubing it more than makes up for in quantity 
notoa1 said:What does it weigh?
I was thinking the same thing...any weight it lost in bodywork and interior bits it may have regained in quantity of tubing...
Edit: And at 3116lbs it very nearly did...
Noddaz said:Colin, you are wrong. I do not need that.
I don't know. I think one should be open to acquiring one of those with the expectation that someday soon, you will need it.
Colin Wood said:In reply to notoa1 :
Okay, I hear you on that one, but it is certainly...unique, right?
That we can agree on, it is unique!
Unique? Yes. Cool? Yes. 3116 lbs though, for a tube frame car with a questionable cage design? Yikes...
Friend built a kart out of a C5, using the stock floor pan and windshield, and plenty of cage to keep things safe, and it's around 2500 lbs... again, with the stock floor pan.
Somebody really likes Lego car chassis.
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